8 January Friday evening 7-10pm Alsager Community Church | Spinning, weaving etc | A chance to have a relaxing evening after Christmas. Bring along any new textile related ‘toys’! A chance to ask questions, brush up on a skill & share expertise |
Winter workshop Saturday January 30th all day | Textures on a loom- suitable for a rigid heddle | Leno, sumac, rya and from your own handspun yarn see some pictures of our 'work in progress' |
12 February Friday evening | Peglooms and weaving sticks | A chance to find out what you can do with these, and to try them out if you have never explored them before. |
20th February Saturday 9.00-12.30 | Farmer’s Market Alsager Civic Centre | Come and see us, we will be demonstrating weaving and spinning and will also have unique textile items to sell Lots of great food available from the Alsager area |
20th February Friday | Trip to a mill/yarn supplier to purchase cotton | Jane and Lorna plan a trip out- if you’d like to join them contact Jane |
21st February Sunday | Trip to Wingham Wools | Contact Janet or Jane if you would like to join us. We’ll be going in cars and sharing petrol costs. |
7th March | Antique Textile Fair Armitage Centre, Manchester | £6.00 admission We’ll be going by car, contact Janet or Jane to arrange if you would like to come |
12 March Friday evening | Different animals and their fleece- what we can do with it | Bring you wheel, drop spindle, loom or some knitting to try some different fibres. |
Spring workshop 20th March Saturday – all day | Dyeing Vegetable Fibres about the workshop including photos here | Another workshop in our successful series. This time we’re learning how to dye with procion dyes for cotton. Linen, flax, viscose & silk More details here |
9 April Friday evening | Weaving around a box | |
24/25 April | Wonderwool, Wales | Royal Welsh Showground, Llanelwedd, Builth Wells, Powys. |
5-7th May (day to be arranged, probably the Friday, check with Janet or Jane before setting out | Little Moreton Hall National Trust | National week of Weaving, Spinning and Dyeing- come and visit us. We’ll be demonstrating weaving and spinning and have textile items on display too. Normal opening hours and admission charges apply. It is a beautiful building, with a great restaurant, so come and have a great day out. |
14 May Friday evening | Beads – paper, crochet, knitted, felt – and anything else | |
11 June Friday evening | Dyeing with lichens | This will start earlier and be in Janet’s garden click here to see more of what happened |
19th June | Alsager Farmer’s Market | See us there |
25/26 June | Woolfest, Cumbria | Mitchells Lakeland Livestock Centre, Cockermouth CA13 0QQ |
Summer workshop Saturday 24th July | Nuno felt making | Currently open to members, non-members can join a waiting list by contacting Jane- watch this space for more details Photos coming soon... |
9 July Friday evening | Kits – what kits can we make for our exhibition? | |
13 August Annette's house from 3-9pm | we've decided we'd like some time to spin, weave, knit and catch up with each other. | Social, open meeting |
21st August | Alsager Farmer’s Market | See us there |
10th September Friday evening | Preparations for the Exhibition | Bring a pen- and your items for the exhibition plus the exhibition submission list so we can type labels. If you are writing text for a display bring this too, so we can type and laminate it. Visitors welcome as always, we're sure to try and spin, weave or whatever too and if you can't get to the exhibition you might just see some of the items |
18 - 26 September | AWSD Exhibition at Quarry bank Mill, Styal | Helping put up/take down exhibition. Help at exhibition |
Autumn workshop 23rd October All day | Indigo dyeing day | Currently open to members, non-members can join a waiting list by contacting Jane- watch this space for more details |
8 October Friday evening | Silk paper & it’s possibilities | |
| RA Smart Ltd Silk etc sale | Clough Bank, Bollington, Macclesfield, SK10 5NZ |
12 November Friday evening | AGM Weaving, spinning etc | |
25 – 28 November | Knitting & Stitching Show Harrogate | Harrogate International Centre
King's Road, Harrogate HG1 5LA |
10 December Friday evening | Christmas meal Bauble making | |
11th December | Alsager Christmas Farmer’s Market | See us there |